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Daily Report reporter R. Robin McDonald's journalism career includes stints as a staff writer at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Fort Worth Star-Telegram, The Wichita Eagle, and The Anniston Star and as a trial tracker at CourtTV and CNN. She is the author of two true crime books -- Black Widow: The True Story of the Hilley Poisonings and Secrets Never Lie: The Death of Sara Tokars.
January 21, 2015 | Daily Report Online
Calling the nation's grand jury stem broken, U.S. Rep. Hank Johnson, a Democratic lawyer who represents DeKalb County, has introduced legislation that ties federal funds for local law enforcement agencies to proposed reforms associated with grand jury investigations of police shootings.
By R. Robin McDonald
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January 21, 2015 | Daily Report Online
A federal judge in Atlanta has told lawyers in litigation over credit and debit card security breaches at The Home Depot that he will reject attempts to seal large portions of the court record.
By R. Robin McDonald
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January 16, 2015 | Daily Report Online
Newly minted U.S. District Judge Eleanor Ross has denied the city of Brookhaven a preliminary injunction in city officials' two-year efforts to stop the sale of sex toys near a well-known strip club.
By R. Robin McDonald
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January 14, 2015 | Daily Report Online
A federal judge in Atlanta has thrown out the 2005 rape conviction of a state prison inmate, holding that the inmate's lawyer, the prosecutor and the Fulton County judge who presided over his trial failed to inform him that he could testify in his own defense.
By R. Robin McDonald
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January 12, 2015 | Daily Report Online
A company cofounded by a Georgia Tech professor and acclaimed inventor has sued apparel companies Ralph Lauren, Adidas and Victoria's Secret, among others, alleging patent infringements of a shirt he helped to design that monitors a wearer's vital signs.
By R. Robin McDonald
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January 9, 2015 | Daily Report Online
Calling a fraud scheme that defrauded Northwest and Delta airlines of $36 million "astounding," U.S. Attorney Sally Yates on Friday announced that one of the scheme's two perpetrators has been sentenced to 10 years in prison.
By R. Robin McDonald
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January 9, 2015 | Daily Report Online
The governor's appointee to a panel overseeing the Cordele Circuit's public defender has resigned because Georgia Attorney General Sam Olens would not represent him in a lawsuit against the state and Cordele officials.
By R. Robin McDonald and Kathleen Baydala Joyner
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January 9, 2015 | Daily Report Online
The former vice president of a defunct Ellijay bank has been convicted of fraud, U.S. Attorney Sally Yates announced Friday.
By R. Robin McDonald
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January 7, 2015 | Daily Report Online
Gov. Nathan Deal says the state will pay the legal bills of Cordele Circuit judges who hired private counsel to defend them in a pending lawsuit, but his announcement doesn't resolve an underlying dispute over whether the state attorney general is obligated to defend judges facing litigation.
By Kathleen Baydala Joyner and R. Robin McDonald
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January 5, 2015 | Daily Report Online
A federal judge has sanctioned Wal-Mart Stores Inc. for destroying evidence in a employee discrimination case, ordering as punishment that the jury can presume company supervisors retaliated against a longtime employee who had complained of discrimination by firing him.
By R. Robin McDonald
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